A Republican congressman berated a group of teenage Senate pages in the Capitol and declined to apologize. Senate Majority Leader Schumer called his actions “utterly despicable.”
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Wisconsin congressman says he believes the pages were being disrespectful in the Capitol RotundaRep. Derrick Van Orden used expletives to reprimand pages who were lying on the floor to take photos of the domed Capitol Rotunda.WASHINGTON—A first-term Republican congressman lashed out at a group of teenage Senate pages and later declined to apologize, drawing a rebuke from the leaders of the Senate.
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